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August 19, 2007 • 1:43 pm 2

Information & The Long Now

Eoin Purcell

This, frankly is deeply impressive. Thanks The Long Now Foundation for leading me into something that I fear will obsess me for some time! We always think we are so new and original in our thinking and we forget how old the concepts and ideas we are working with actually are. This is a as true in books as it is in techonology of all sorts. If you doubt it, read this book which has much to say on the subject.

Having a spiffy weekend.
Eoin

Filed under: Books, Distribution, Future of Books, Future of Media, , ,

August 16, 2007 • 10:00 pm 2

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 16/08/2008

Eoin Purcell

Michael Hyatt buys an iphone (I want me one of those, I’d even buy out my phone contract for it too!)
Here

Harper Collins gets all cute with the iphone and their browse inside widget (Why always a marketing tool??)
Here

Snowcasing (Why are those Snowbooks people so very smart? Who knows but go them!)
Here & Here

The Postal Service mad and Loving the Feist too.
Eoin

Filed under: Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, Innovation, , , , , ,

August 14, 2007 • 2:22 pm 0

More on Penguin’s new website

Eoin Purcell

TheBookseller.com carries a great blog from Anna Rafferty the digital marketing director of Penguin. Line of the piece:

Months of workshops, designing, testing and re-designing later and we’re happy that we’ve shifted our site from being a company on broadcast to being genuinely reader-centric.

Go read it here.
Eoin

Filed under: Blogging, Books, , ,

August 12, 2007 • 11:11 am 0

Sony’s plastic colour screen

Eoin Purcell

You can almost seeing it in a book just to make a point.
From Melissa Worden’s blog Via Journerdiam

Just finished Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur. Nice review here.
Eoin

Filed under: Books, Future of Media, Future of Publishing, ,

August 8, 2007 • 9:24 pm 0

Freakonomics now a New York Times blog

Eoin Purcell

How Strange
The Freakonomics blog moved yesterday from its own dedicated site to a new home at the New York Times. Stephen Dubner has a long post explaining the reasons here.

I guess we should not be too surprised. The value of a site and community like Freakonomics is very clear. The monetizing potential must be high. Sites like it are the model most publishers think of when they think of online communities built around books and authors.

All in all I think this is both a good day for digital content publishers (and book publishers in general) but a bad day I should think for the actual publisher of Freakonomics, William Morrow. Surely they must be reluctant to see such a property go to another publisher, even one as powerful as the NYT. They are left with a much less attractive site to promote the book itself? Was there a deal done int he background?

Perplexed
Eoin

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